#43 – Imbalanced Pale Ale

American IPA
April 28, 2013
#43 - Imbalanced Pale Ale View Label
#43 - Imbalanced Pale Ale
OG1.054
FG1.012
IBU77
ABV5.5%
American IPA 2.5 gallons  ·  Batch #43
Brewed April 5, 2013Bottled April 27, 2013

Grains

  • 6 lbU.S. 2-Row Pale Malt
  • 8 ozCaramel Malt (40L)
  • Hops (Whole leaf)
  • FWH: 1 oz Centennial (10.9% AA)
  • 10 min: 0.5 oz Centennial (10.9% AA)
  • 0 min: 0.5 oz Centennial (10.9% AA)
  • Dry Hop (14 days): 1 oz Centennial (10.9% AA)

Yeast

1 liter starter of Northwest Ale (Wyeast Labs #1332)

This was a tweak of last year’s Imperialist Pale Ale recipe…which was one of the ruined beers, but it also had too much caramel malt (it was an overall poorly designed recipe).

So I set out to change the recipe to bring down the ABV, but increase the hops…in a way where the BU:GU ratio would be way imbalanced, hence the new name (I’ll save the old name for use in a IIPA). That ratio for this beer is 77:54, or 1.4. The typical range for an IPA is 0.5 to 0.9; the higher the number, the more bitter it is.